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Asedio al corazón (romance de guerra del sur #2)
by Lexy TimmsKnox Township, 1863 Asedio del corazón, Libro 2 en la Serie romance del sur, por el autor más vendido Lexy Timms Jasper Perry tiene un hogar, una familia: todo lo que él creía que estaba perdido para siempre después de que estallara la guerra. Con el amor de Clara, Jasper cree que tiene todo lo que siempre ha querido. Mientras espera el matrimonio con Clara, se encuentra superado por la nostalgia. Cuando una milicia confederada lo secuestra, decidida a castigarlo por su deserción, Jasper tiene una opción: renunciar a la lealtad que una vez tuvo con la Confederación y luchar para volver con Clara; o dejar su nuevo hogar atrás, y regresar a todo lo que es familiar. Para complicar más las cosas, la milicia ha confundido a Cecelia con la esposa de Jasper y la ha secuestrado también. Reunido con su familia, Solomon Dalton intenta volver a su antigua vida como si nada hubiera sucedido. Pero cuando Jasper y Cecelia son secuestrados, Solomon debe regresar al territorio Confederado para salvar a los que ama. Sin embargo, no está solo, un hombre extraño lo está siguiendo, y Solomon ha escuchado en voz baja susurros de que los espías de la Unión están buscando a aquellos que han traicionado la causa ... Serie Romance del sur: Pequeño amor Asedio del corazón Libertad por siempre La fortuna del soldado
Asemic: The Art of Writing
by Peter SchwengerThe first critical study of writing without language In recent years, asemic writing—writing without language—has exploded in popularity, with anthologies, a large-scale art exhibition, and flourishing interest on sites like tumblr, YouTube, Pinterest, and Instagram. Yet this burgeoning, fascinating field has never received a dedicated critical study. Asemic fills that gap, proposing new ways of rethinking the nature of writing.Pioneered in the work of creators such as Henri Michaux, Roland Barthes, and Cy Twombly, asemic writing consolidated as a movement in the 1990s. Author Peter Schwenger first covers these &“asemic ancestors&” before moving to current practitioners such as Michael Jacobson, Rosaire Appel, and Christopher Skinner, exploring how asemic writing has evolved and gained importance in the contemporary era.Asemic includes intriguing revelations about the relation of asemic writing to Chinese characters, the possibility of asemic writing in nature, and explanations of how we can read without language. Written in a lively style, this book will engage scholars of contemporary art and literary theory, as well as anyone interested in what writing was and what it is now in the process of becoming.
Asesinar Al Presidente. Asesinatos Presidenciales E Intentos De Asesinatos
by Maria J. Manzano Nicholas L. Vulich¿Quiere conocer la verdadera historia en torno a los hombres que asesinaron a los presidentes?"Asesinar al Presidente" ofrece un análisis breve y fascinante de los presidentes que murieron, los motivos y el estado mental de los asesinos y la reacción de los ciudadanos ante los asesinatos.Entre los protagonistas encontrará a: Charles Julius Guiteau, el hombre que disparó contra James Garfield. Dijo a las autoridades: "Estaba en la cama ... y pensaba en la situación política y por mi cabeza cruzó la idea de que si el Presidente desaparecía todo iría mejor...." Y, posteriormente, durante el juicio añadió: "Imagino que me convertiré en Presidente. Algunas personas creen que soy un hombre tan capaz como el presidente (Chester A. Arthur) lo es ahora".John Schrank, el hombre que disparó contra Theodore Roosevelt dijo: "Vi en un sueño al presidente McKinley colocado en un ataúd señalando con el dedo a un hombre vestido con ropas de monje en quien reconocí a Theodore Roosevelt. El presidente fallecido dijo: "Este es mi asesino, vengad mi muerte". Y luego disparó e hirió al candidato del Partido Progresista, al Alce Macho.John Wilkes Booth, el asesino del presidente Lincoln, escribió en su diario tan sólo varias noches antes de morir: "Tengo un alma demasiado grande para morir como un criminal.....".Las historias narradas son sorprendentes.Las semejanzas entre cada uno de los asesinatos le hará pensar. La mayor parte de los asesinos se enteró del itinerario que iba a seguir el presidente leyendo el periódico. Leon Czolgosz, el asesino del presidente McKinley, dijo a las autoridades: "Hace ocho días, mientras estaba en Chicago, leí en un periódico de Chicago que el presidente McKinley iba a visitar la Exposición panamericana de Buffalo. Aquel día compré un billete y llegué aquí decidido a hacer algo, aunque todavía no sabía qué. Pensé en disparar contra el pr
Asesinato en el barrio británico
by Amanda RobertsCuando una joven china es asesinada en el barrio británico de la Delegación Extranjera, la corte imperial le ordena al inspector Gong que resuelva el crimen antes de que incidente provoque una guerra entre China y las potencias extranjeras. ¿Cuál es el problema? El inspector Gong no habla inglés, y tampoco es el tipo de hombre que la élite británica que vive en Pekín vaya a aceptar con facilidad. Una vez más, tendrá que acudir a la única mujer que podrá ayudarlo. Esa mujer en quien no puede dejar de pensar. Lady Li quiere olvidarse del inspector Gong. Él implica un peligro para ella, para su posición y el futuro de sus hijas. Pero, cuando una vez más el hombre golpea a su puerta y le pide su ayuda para resolver un caso, ella no se puede resistir, a pesar de lo que su sentido común le dice. Las habilidades diplomáticas de Lady Li y su conocimiento del inglés le permiten entrar con libertad en el mundo de los occidentales. Pero pronto, las tensiones entre locales y extranjeros los llevan al borde de un conflicto bélico. ¿Podrán Lady Li y el inspector Gong resolver el crimen y evitar que China vaya a la guerra?
Asesinato en la Ciudad Prohibida
by Amanda RobertsAl enterarse de que una de sus damas de compañía ha sido asesinada dentro de la Ciudad Prohibidad, la emperatriz ordena al inspector Gong que encuentre al asesino. Por desgracia, por ser un hombre, no puede entrar en el Patio Interior. ¿Cómo se supone que pueda resolver un asesinato si no puede ver la escena del crimen ni hablar con las mujeres que conocían a la víctima? No podrá resolver solo este crimen. Lady Li, una dama viuda, se siente desconsolada cuando se entera de la muerte de su cuñada, quien estaba sirviendo a la emperatriz como dama de compañía. Está decidida a encontrar al asesino, aunque eso implique ayudar al grosero y detestable inspector Gong y tenga que volver a la Ciudad Prohibida a investigar de manera encubierta. ¿Podrán Lady Li y el inspector Gong encontrar al asesino antes de que vuelva a matar?
Asesinato en la Ópera de Pekín (Serie de Misterios de la Dinastía Qing #3)
by Amanda RobertsLuego de ayudar al príncipe Kung a evitar un desastre internacional, y de negociar con la madre del inspector Gong su compromiso con la concubina Swan, Lady Li decide ir a disfrutar de una noche en la ópera para ver la actuación, por primera vez, de una artista femenina en escena en la ópera de Pekín. Pero su noche de placer toma un giro dramático porque, durante la función, alguien es asesinado en escena. El inspector Gong intenta distraerse de sus líos amorosos, pero sus planes se complican cuando asiste a la misma función de ópera que Lady Li. A partir de ahí, su mente por suerte se ve ocupada en resolver el asesinato que ocurrió ante cientos de personas, y se sumerge en un mundo de disfraces y bambalinas. La emperatriz ha decretado que ahora las mujeres pueden desempeñar los roles femeninos de las amadas óperas de Pekín. Pero pocas mujeres se han animado a aceptar el desafío y arriesgarse a ser el blanco de la ira de los habitués más conservadores de la ópera. Cunado la primera mujer que se anima a desempeñar el papel de "dan" se convierte en la principal sospechosa del asesinato de su coprotagonista, Lady Li le ruega al inspector Gong que no la arreste todavía a la actriz y que encuentre al verdadero asesino, porque si la arresta, la actriz sería decapitada. Con el futuro del teatro chino en sus manos, el inspector Gong tiene que encontrar la verdad entre personas que viven de ocultarla, detrás de sus trajes y máscaras. ¿Descubrirá el inspector al asesino, con la ayuda de Lady Li? ¿O el intento de cambio social de la emperatriz morirá en su primer intento? Asómense detrás de las cortinas del fascinante mundo de la ópera china en Muerte en la Ópera de Pekín, el tercer libro de la Serie de Misterio de la Dinastía Qing.
Asesino de espías
by L. Ronald HubbardEl marinero Americano Kurt Reid es un tipo impetuoso: tan duro y energico como Benicio del Toro. Falsamente acusado de asesinato, Reid cambia de barco en Shangai. . . y desembarca en una telarana de intrigas, traiciones y asesinatos. Atraido a un letal juego de espias, tendra que aprender rapido las reglas, porque con jugadores como la sexy agente rusa Varinka Savischna el juego es tan seductor como siniestro.
Asesino en la oscuridad (Detective William Monk #Volumen 15)
by Anne PerryTras ser testigo de la trágica muerte de una pareja, el detective Monk deberá descubrir si se ha tratado de un accidente o un asesinato. Al frente de su grupo de la Policía Fluvial, William Monk se encuentra patrullando el Támesis cuando ve a una pareja forcejeando en lo que parece una violenta discusión cerca de la barandilla del puente Waterloo. De repente, ambos caen al agua y mueren. Monk no puede evitar preguntarse si se ha tratado de un accidente, un suicidio o un asesinato, y aunque será casi imposible averiguarlo, está decidido a intentarlo. Con la ayuda de su intrépida esposa, Hester, seguirá un camino resbaladizo que lo llevará de los salones más lujosos de la alta sociedad al submundo de las cloacas de Londres. La crítica ha dicho sobre Asesino en la oscuridad:«Absorbente... fascinante... Los lectores disfrutarán con los inesperados giros finales.»Publishers Weekly
Asesinos en Roma (Misterios romanos #Volumen 4)
by Caroline LawrenceEl cuarto volumen de la colección «Misterios romanos», cuyas tres entregas anteriores han sido la delicia de miles de niños. Además de disfrutar de divertidas historias de detectives, los niños aprenderán cómo era la vida en la antigua Roma. En esta cuarta parte de la serie Misterios Romanos, Flavia Gémina, Nubia y Lupo celebran en la ciudad romana de Ostia el cumpleañosde su amigo Jonatán. De pronto, surge un extraño visitante que desea ver al padre de Jonatán, y al día siguiente, el visitante desaparece y con él, el muchacho. Sus amigos descubren que se ha marchado en misión secreta a Roma y están dispuestos a encontrarlo. Emprenden entonces una peligrosa aventura que los conduce hasta el palacio del emperador Tito, donde se prepara una terrible venganza que tendrá consecuencias sorprendentes para la familia de Jonatán.
Asfuriyyeh: A History of Madness, Modernity, and War in the Middle East (Culture and Psychiatry)
by Joelle M Abi-RachedThe development of psychiatry in the Middle East, viewed through the history of one of the first modern mental hospitals in the region.ʿAṣfūriyyeh (formally, the Lebanon Hospital for the Insane) was founded by a Swiss Quaker missionary in 1896, one of the first modern psychiatric hospitals in the Middle East. It closed its doors in 1982, a victim of Lebanon's brutal fifteen-year civil war. In this book, Joelle Abi-Rached uses the rise and fall of ʿAṣfūriyyeh as a lens through which to examine the development of modern psychiatric theory and practice in the region as well as the sociopolitical history of modern Lebanon.
Ash
by Holly ThompsonCaitlin Ober is back in Japan, teaching English in Kyushu. Some 15 years ago, as a little girl, Caitlin lived in Kyoto, but a tragic accident drove her and her family back to America. Now guilt obscures her path, just as ashfall from a nearby volcano covers Kagoshima in dust. In a garden Caitlin meets a teenage half-Japanese girl, Naomi, who may be someone Caitlin can save this time around. Together the two travel to Kyoto during O-Bon, the festival when the dead return. Amid bonfires, temple grounds, and ghostly memories, Caitlin bravely embraces her future. Ash is a bittersweet novel of redemptive beauty, of startling images and alluring details.Holly Thompson lives in Kamakura and writes frequently about Japan. This is her first novel.
Ash: A Secret History (Gateway Essentials #424)
by Mary GentleFor the beautiful young woman Ash, life has always been arquebuses and artillery, swords and armour and the true horrors of hand-to-hand combat. War is her job. She has fought her way to the command of a mercenary company, and on her unlikely shoulders lies the destiny of a Europe threatened by the depredations of an Infidel army more terrible than any nightmare.Winner of the BSFA Award for best novel, 2000
Asha Ane Dhiraj
by Gopaldas Patelઅદ્ભુત રોમાંચક કથા તરીકે, (મૂળ ફ્રેંચ) નવલકથા ‘કાઉન્ટ ઑફ મોન્ટે-ક્રિસ્ટો’એ લાખો લોકોને રસમાં તરબોળ કર્યા છે અને હજુ પણ કરે છે. માનવહૃદયની બે મોટી લાગણીઓ—પોતાને કરવામાં આવેલા નુકસાનનો બદલો લેવો, અને તે માટે જોઈતી સાધનસામગ્રી મેળવવા મથવું,—એ બેને કલ્પનાનો છૂટો દોર આપીને આ કથાનો મશહૂર ફ્રેંચ લેખક ડૂમા એવો તો રસ-વમળ ચગાવે છે, કે જે વાચકને બીજો વિચાર કરવાની તક આપ્યા વિના સીધો પોતાની અંદર ખેંચી લે છે.
Asha and Baz Meet Katia Krafft (Asha and Baz)
by Caroline FernandezIn the fourth book in the Asha and Baz series, readers learn about volcanoes from renowned volcanologist Katia Krafft!Asha wants to win a super cool volcanic rock by solving the Great Volcano Challenge at school. So she and her best friend Baz use their magic stick to travel to Iceland in 1973 to learn from famous volcano researcher Katia Krafft.She's sure to be able to help them with their project, but she's got an eruption to observe and data to record—and ash, lava, and smelly gases are a lot more scary than a classroom. With safety concerns rising, Asha and Baz will need to keep their cool to get back home and win the prize.
Ashblane's Lady
by Sophia JamesShe was his means of revenge...Lady Madeleine Randwick was his hostage, and a way to get under her brother's skin. As a player in the murky game of borderland politics, Alexander Ullyot, Laird of Ashblane, should have had no compunction about using her for his own ends. He should ruin her as surely as he wanted to ruin her brother.And instead...instead he found he was complimenting her. Was it the firelight in her hair, the soft, low tone of her voice or her stubborn streak of independence? Alex saw danger ahead. Was he falling for the woman who was his means of revenge...?
Ashby (Images of America)
by Ashby Historical SocietyAshby is located in the hills of central Massachusetts, along the New Hampshire border. The town was incorporated in 1767, initially growing as an agricultural community before water-powered mills emerged along its streams. In 1840, the population began 50 years of decline as people sought more profitable work in larger cities and free land in the western United States. Perhaps due to this decline, the center of town is preserved much as it was in 1840, boasting all its original buildings still in place. Ashby saw a century of renewed growth starting in 1880, when Bostonians arrived during the summer to escape the heat and unhealthy city air. A number of businesses, including inns and tearooms, catered to these wealthy visitors. With the arrival of the automobile, residents gained access to jobs in the surrounding mill towns. It was during this time that the last of Ashby's many mills closed, the first public library was built, and one-room classrooms were combined to become a central town school. Today, one can still stand on the town common in front of the 1809 meetinghouse and look over an area that has undergone little change in the past 170 years.
Ashenden
by Elizabeth WilhideA novel about people, a country estate, and living history "The house contains time. Its walls hold stories. Births and deaths, comings and goings, people and events passing through. . . . For now, however, it lies suspended in a kind of emptiness, as if it has fallen asleep or someone has put it under a spell. This silence won't last: can't last. Something will have to be done." When brother and sister Charlie and Ros discover that they have inherited their aunt's grand English country house, they must decide if they should sell it. As they survey the effects of time on the estate's architectural treasures, a narrative spanning two and a half centuries unfolds. We meet those who built the house, lived in it and loved it, worked in it, and those who would subvert it to their own ends. Each chapter is skillfully woven into the others so that the storylines of the upstairs and downstairs characters and their relatives and descendants intertwine to make a rich tapestry. A beautifully written novel full of humor, heart, and poignancy, Ashenden is an evocative portrait of a house that becomes a character as compelling as the people who inhabit it.
Ashes
by Kathryn LaskyBerlin, 1932: In many ways thirteen-year-old Gabriella Schramm lives a charmed, carefree life. She loves her parents and her sister, Ulla. She loves her new literature teacher. She loves her family's summer lake house, next door to Albert Einstein's. And most of all, Gaby loves books. But soon she begins losing all these things, one by one, as Hitler unstoppably climbs to power. People Gaby thought she could trust turn out to be Nazis. Many of her friends are fleeing, or, worse, being taken away. And there's something troubling about Ulla's boyfriend that Gaby can't quite figure out. As always, she turns to her books for comfort--but even those are disappearing. Newbery Honor winner and master of historical fiction Kathryn Lasky once again brings the past to life with this searing portrait of a nation on the brink of war, and a girl whose life is about to change.
Ashes
by Kathryn LaskyBerlin, 1932. Thirteen-year-old Gabriella Schramm's world is slowly, but steadily, crumbling as Adolf Hitler rises to power. <P><P>The only thing that soothes Gabriella is her favorite pastime-reading. <P><P>But then her country's tensions rise, the streets fill with soldiers, Gaby's sister's boyfriend raises his arm in a heil Hitler salute, and a family friend-Albert Einstein-flees the country. <P><P>And her only solace-her books-come under attack. Will Gaby have to leave behind the stories-and the life-that she has always loved?
Ashes
by Sergios GakasWhen Sonia Verika, a former actress who takes solace in alcohol and isolation, is pulled from the fire, her body is burned almost beyond recognition. The house she shared with a retired director and a small family of African refugees is entirely destroyed, and she is the only survivor. For her ex-lovers, Police Inspector Chronis Halkidis and Simeon Piertzovanis, a failed lawyer and the landlord of the gutted property, her fate is a heavy reckoning. Reflection gives way to guilt, and then to a fanatical desire to uncover the truth behind the blaze and hold those responsible to account - by any means necessary. But with corruption rife throughout the force, Chronis soon finds his investigation shackled from within. Fuelled by their need for revenge, and by their twin addictions to alcohol and cocaine, Simeon and Chronis must resort increasingly to violence if they are to unmask a conspiracy that unites church and state against the interests of justice. A classic noir thriller, Ashes is unflinching in its examination of the violence and extortion bred by corruption, but at the same time tender in its treatment of human weaknesses, of guilt, addiction and regret.
Ashes
by Sergios GakasWhen Sonia Verika, a former actress who takes solace in alcohol and isolation, is pulled from the fire, her body is burned almost beyond recognition. The house she shared with a retired director and a small family of African refugees is entirely destroyed, and she is the only survivor. For her ex-lovers, Police Inspector Chronis Halkidis and Simeon Piertzovanis, a failed lawyer and the landlord of the gutted property, her fate is a heavy reckoning. Reflection gives way to guilt, and then to a fanatical desire to uncover the truth behind the blaze and hold those responsible to account - by any means necessary. But with corruption rife throughout the force, Chronis soon finds his investigation shackled from within. Fuelled by their need for revenge, and by their twin addictions to alcohol and cocaine, Simeon and Chronis must resort increasingly to violence if they are to unmask a conspiracy that unites church and state against the interests of justice. A classic noir thriller, Ashes is unflinching in its examination of the violence and extortion bred by corruption, but at the same time tender in its treatment of human weaknesses, of guilt, addiction and regret.
Ashes & Alchemy
by Cindy Spencer PapeA Gaslight Chronicles novella: London, 1860 -- Police inspector Sebastian Brown served Queen and country in India before returning to England to investigate supernatural crimes alongside the Order of the Round Table. If his wifeless, childless life feels a little empty sometimes, that's not too great a price to pay in the name of duty.Minerva Shaw is desperately seeking a doctor when she mistakenly lands on Sebastian's doorstep. Her daughter Ivy has fallen gravely ill with a mysterious illness-the same illness, it seems, that's responsible for taking the lives of many of Ivy's classmates.Seb sniffs a case, and taking in Minnie and Ivy seems the only way to protect them while he solves it. But as mother and daughter work their way into his heart and Seb uses every magickal and technological resource he can muster to uncover the source of the deadly plague, it's he who will need protecting-from emotions he'd thought buried long ago.
Ashes To Ashes (The Eighth Chronicle of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon)
by Mel StarrMaster Hugh, Kate, and their children attend the Midsummer's Eve fire. Next morning early Hugh hears the passing bell ring from the Church of St. Beornwald, and moments later is summoned. Tenants collecting the ashes to spread upon their fields have found burned bones. Master Hugh learns of several men of Bampton and nearby villages who have gone missing recently. Most are soon found, some alive, some dead. Master Hugh eventually learns that the bones are those of a bailiff from a nearby manor. Someone has slain him and placed his body in the fire to destroy evidence of murder. Bailiffs are not popular men; they dictate labour service, collect rents, and enforce other obligations. Has this bailiff died at the hand of some angry tenant? Hugh soon discovers this is not the case. There is quite another reason for murder . . .
Ashes To Ashes: 35 Years of Humiliation (And About 20 Minutes of Ecstasy) Watching England v Australia
by Marcus BerkmannIn summer 2009, by far the most popular event in the cricketing calendar comes round again - the Ashes series between England and Australia. The anticipation will be intense, the hype absurd, the sense of expectation never remotely likely to be satisfied, for two good reasons. England won in 2005 by a whisker. We can't expect anything so good again, possibly for the rest of our lives. The second reason is even more brutally realistic. For the truth is that, over the past twenty years at least, Australia have usually won very easily. We begin with hope, we end in despair. For the many of us who follow English cricket closely, it's a strange and terrible form of biennial punishment for crimes we didn't know we had committed. 'Hell is other people,' said Jean-Paul Sartre, and as so often he was completely wrong. Hell is Ricky Ponting winning the toss on a perfect batting strip on a glorious sunny day. Hell is what happened in Australia in 2007, when the home side won 5-0. Of course we look forward to 2009. But we also dread it, as we would dread exams or major surgery. We would be foolish to do otherwise.
Ashes and Stones: A Journey Through Scotland in Search of Women Hunted as Witches
by Allyson ShawA moving and personal journey, along rugged coasts and through remote villages and cities, in search of the traces of those accused of witchcraft in seventeenth-century Scotland.'It's summer. I stand where perhaps Ellen stood, in this ground thick with new thistle and long grass. She would have kenned this coast in all weathers: in the summer when it was as gentle as a lake and in the winter, with the high winds and stinging salt spray.' In Ashes and Stones we visit modern memorials and standing stones, and roam among forests and hedge mazes, folklore and political fantasies. From fairy hills to forgotten caves, we explore a spellbound landscape. Allyson Shaw untangles the myth of witchcraft and gives voice to those erased by it. Her elegant and lucid prose weaves together threads of history and feminist reclamation to create a vibrant memorial. This is the untold story of the witches' monuments of Scotland and the women's lives they mark. Ashes and Stones is a trove of folklore linking the lives of contemporary women to the horrors of the past, a record of resilience and a call to choose and remember our ancestors.